A comment on the paper “Performance budgeting and accrual budgeting: Decision rules or analytic tools” Javier Monzó Ministry of Finance of Spain Vilnius, 21 March,2007 OECD 3rd meeting of Senior Budget Officials from Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European countries
First comments Budget innovations to increase efficiency Implementation: restrictions and limitations Fiscal rules: necessary but, how many? Budget classifications
Performance budgeting Organizational changes Compulsory and legal expenditures Finding proper indicators Time restrictions Managers involvement
Accrual budgeting Extra complexity to the process Budget: an operational document Social Security: pay as you go with accruals? Manipulation: a matter of basis?
Conclusion Remarkable innovations Performance: when targets are well defined and properly measured Accruals: more interesting in pluriannual frameworks than in one-year budgets
Thank you!